Covert Action Information Bulletin #39

The CIA and the Web of Supporting Agencies

Cover Image: Raleigh, NC 1970. LSD is administered to a spider, its web will later be studied. 

Back cover Image: January 1991. Business is brisk at the new Moscow McDonald’s.

Table of Contents:

Western Intervention in the USSRby Sean Gervasi

Since the early 1980s the USA has waged and intense political and economic war against the Soviet Union. A former UN military and political analyst puts the pieces together.

Orwellian Democracy Project by Holly Sklar and Chip Berlet

NED consolidate US intervention behind the facade of democracy. From Nicaragua to Poland, election-rigging and destabilization are increasingly open and official policy.

Cancer Warfare by Richard Hatch

When the US biowar program was disbanded, scientists shifted to the National Cancer Institute where they continued research under the guise of seeking a cure for cancer.

Espionage 101 by Leonard Minsky

The National Security Education Act is a $180 Million bid for university level training and recruitment of a new generation of spies.

Disciplining the Third World by Walden Bello

The US dominated World Bank uses its enormous financial clout not for development but to promote US interests and beggar the poor of the Third World.

Population Control as Foreign Policy by Betsy Hartmann

Family Planning seems benign enough, but US agencies emphasize overpopulation to advance political, economic, and even military policies antithetical to the needs of Third World women.

Does USAID Aid People With AIDS? by Meredeth Turshen

USAID is responding to the AIDS crisis in Africa. From the African perspective, its policies are a prescription for worsening health conditions on the continent.

Peace Corps and Empire by Charley MacMartin

The Peace Corps plays “good Cop”, helping to create a favorable climate for corporate interests. Now the focus is shifting from Third World agriculture to Eastern European “Free Markets”.

USIA: Propaganda as Public Diplomacy by Robin Andersen

Since World War 2, the USIA has published, broadcast, and promoted propaganda,; compiled blacklists of US citizens; and warped political realities around the globe.

BCCI Funds Arms Dealer, Smuggler by Jack Colhoun

BCCI facilitated arms deals and coffee smuggling between Guatemala and the US. Two former US national security officials were directly involved.

Oil Money, BCCI, and the CIA by Fred Dexter

A highly placed Washington insider constructs a case showing the BCCI was apart of a CIA off-the-shelf operation serving the interests of diverse and sometimes antagonistic players.

FBI Involvement in the Supreme Court by Alexxander Charns

Pro-law-and-order judges are desirable; pro-FBI judges are preferable. The Bureau has been pulling strings at the Supreme Court since the reign of J. Edgar Hoover

The Death of Danny Casolaro by David MacMichael

The death of investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was ruled a suicide, but questions remain. Was he killed for what he knew about corruption in the Department of Justice?

Refugee Tapes CIA Recruitment Pitch by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap

Attempting to recruit a Filipino refugee, the CIA failed misterably - on prime time TV. An inside look at how the CIA seduces assets with a crude mix of threats and bribes.

The Confirmation of Robert Gates by Louis Wolf

Gates pled ignorance almost 100 times in response to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Fellow officers condemned him. Why did he slip through unscathed?

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